About the Authors

Elisha Chatanga

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Veterinary Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Lilongwe University of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Lilongwe, Malawi, Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Wessam Mohamed Ahmed Mohamed

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States of America

Samuel Kelava

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Naoki Hayashi

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yuma Ohari

Roles Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Risk Analysis, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Mohamed Abdallah Mohamed Moustafa

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, South Valley University, Qena, Egypt, Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States of America

Joseph W. Magona

Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Africa Union, Interafrican Bureau for Animal Resources (AU-IBAR), Nairobi, Kenya

Kyoko Hayashida

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Division of Collaboration and Education, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Yongjin Qiu

Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Nariaki Nonaka

Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Ryo Nakao

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

ryo.nakao@vetmed.hokudai.ac.jp

Affiliations Laboratory of Parasitology, Graduate School of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Division of Parasitology, Veterinary Research Unit, International Institute for Zoonosis Control, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, One Health Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.